That is eight pitchers, we have three to go. I’m going to carry eleven pitchers, not twelve because you don’t have a fifth starter, and Kershaw and Yu are at least six inning pitchers, with plenty of rest in the postseason for the bullpen.

The candidates:

Hyun-Jin Ryu – if he’s healthy I think he should be in the bullpen but maybe not more so than Avilan. Also can’t really consider him a candidate since Roberts refused to use him in the bullpen as he said he would to get the starters not making the postseason rotation acclimated to the bullpen.

Kenta Maeda – He is in for me, just in case Rich Hill has one of those games like he had last year in Washington.

Brandon McCarthy – The next week could be the decider for him but for me he is out though I would have no problem picking him over Josh Fields/Stripling or Walker Buehler.

Josh Fields – I could easily see him being the Pedro Baez of 2017 if they let him

Ross Stripling – not feeling it for Ross, I think he loses his spot to Kenta. At least he does for me.

Brock Stewart – does not appear to be on the radar for the postseason

Pedro Baez – sorry Pedro, not this year

Luis Avilan – It is close but I’ll take him over Ryu giving the Dodgers three solid left hand options in the bullpen.

Walker Buehler – I know the Dodgers really want him on the postseason roster. I don’t.

Edwardo Paredes – No, I don’t really consider him a candidate

With Kenta and Avilan in, that leaves one spot left. For me it comes down to Josh Fields/ Ross Stripling/Walker Buehler. I hope none of the three would need to pitch in a high leverage situation but if so, I’m closing my eyes and going with Josh Fields.

To be clear on this I would have chosen Ryu over Fields but since the Dodgers have refused to try Ryu in relief I can’t consider him a candidate for the bullpen and I fully expect Wood to win the 4th starter gig leaving Ryu without a spot.

Pos

Player

SP1

Clayton Kershaw

SP2

Yu Darvish

SP3

Rich Hill

SP4

Alex Wood

Closer

Kenley Jansen

Setup1

Brandon Morrow

Setup2

Tony Cingrani

Setup3

Tony Watson

Setup4

Kenta Maeda

Setup5

Luis Avilan

Setup6

Josh Fields

Remember this is my own exercise, I fully expect the Dodgers to go with only thirteen position players and twelve pitchers and that Walker Buehler will be on the roster, but this is what I’d do.